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"Infiltrators" or refugees? An analysis of Israel's policy towards African asylum seekers (2013)
Journal Article
Campbell, J., Yaron, H., & Hashimshony-Yaffe, N. (2013). "Infiltrators" or refugees? An analysis of Israel's policy towards African asylum seekers. International Migration, 51(4), 144-157. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12070

This article adopts a genealogical approach in examining Israeli immigration policy by focusing on the situation confronting African asylum seekers who have been forced back into Egypt, detained and deported but who have not had their asylum claims p... Read More about "Infiltrators" or refugees? An analysis of Israel's policy towards African asylum seekers.

Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’ (2012)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2013). Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(4), 670-690. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2011.634506

This paper examines claims made about the role of 'expert knowledge' in analysing the language of individuals seeking asylum in the UK. I treat policy as a type of power and seek to understand how this policy uses the language of science to further t... Read More about Language analysis in the United Kingdom's refugee status determination system: seeing through policy claims about ‘expert knowledge’.

The Enduring Nature of Stateless in The Horn of Africa: How Nation-States and Western Courts (re) define Nationality (2011)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2011). The Enduring Nature of Stateless in The Horn of Africa: How Nation-States and Western Courts (re) define Nationality. International Journal of Refugee Law, 23(4), 656-679. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijrl/eer024

Across Africa, citizenship is being manipulated and restricted to deny rights to those whom a state wishes to marginalize or exclude. This occurred on a large scale between 1998–2000 when Ethiopia and Eritrea, using war as an excuse, arrested and for... Read More about The Enduring Nature of Stateless in The Horn of Africa: How Nation-States and Western Courts (re) define Nationality.

The 'problem' of ethics in contemporary anthropological research (2010)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2010). The 'problem' of ethics in contemporary anthropological research. Anthropology matters journal, 12(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.22582/am.v12i1.186

Why is it that ‘ethics’ is seen as a problem in anthropology? This paper seeks to explore this question by looking at (a) historical shifts in the relation between ethnographers and their subjects/informants and (b) anthropological practice. I am int... Read More about The 'problem' of ethics in contemporary anthropological research.

Caught between the ideology and realities of development: Transiting from the Horn of Africa to Europe (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper
Campbell, J. (2009). Caught between the ideology and realities of development: Transiting from the Horn of Africa to Europe

While the teloi of development seeks to explicitly link an ideology of ‘market fundamentalism’to one of ‘rights-based development’, the reality of life for many in developing societies is characterized by growing inequality and despotic rule. In such... Read More about Caught between the ideology and realities of development: Transiting from the Horn of Africa to Europe.

International Development and Bilateral Aid to Kenya in the 1990s (2008)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2008). International Development and Bilateral Aid to Kenya in the 1990s. Journal of Anthropological Research, 64(2), 249-267. https://doi.org/10.3998/jar.0521004.0064.204

This paper seeks to analyze a decade of international development in Kenya through the lens of a multi-sited and multi-level ethnographic analysis. It demonstrates the inherently messy and political nature of development as well as the need to analyz... Read More about International Development and Bilateral Aid to Kenya in the 1990s.

Development research: Convergent or divergent approaches and understandings of poverty? An introduction (2005)
Journal Article
Campbell, J., & Holland, J. (2005). Development research: Convergent or divergent approaches and understandings of poverty? An introduction. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 45, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.3167/092012905780909289

Is it possible or indeed desirable to combine qualitative, participatory and quantitative research methods and approaches to better understand poverty? This special section of Focaal seeks to explore a number of contentious, inter-related issues that... Read More about Development research: Convergent or divergent approaches and understandings of poverty? An introduction.

Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Development (2004)
Book
Campbell, J., & Holland, J. (Eds.). (2004). Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Development. Intermediate Technology Group

The essays explore various methodological issues which arising in development research when combining qualitative and quantitative methods